Animal Senses Study Guide

The snowshoe rabbit has white fur in the winter and dark fur in summer. What is the main survival advantage of this fur color change to the rabbit?

• Reflex

• The color is an adaptive form of camouflage to avoid predators.

• Signal a female lizard for breeding.

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Some species in the weasel family, such as skunks, protect themselves by spraying a foul-smelling musk oil when threatened. Why would a spray defense be a useful mechanism for a species?

• Spray can turn a predator away before an individual is harmed.

• Reflex

• Retiles and cold blooded

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A girl attempts to drink a large glass of water without stopping. When she finishes, she gasps for air as she was unable to breath while drinking. The gasp response is an example of which type of behavior?

• Reflex

• Adaptation

• Scared

The male lizard displays his brightest colors, inflates a rust-colored throat sack, and bobs his head up and down, all in an attempt to

• Signal a female lizard for breeding

• Reflex

• Dance

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Reptiles, such as snakes, become extremely inactive during the winter month. They become active again, hunting for food, when the weather become warmer. Explain why this is true.

• Reptiles are cold blooded.

• Signal a female lizard for breeding

• They are shy.

Rabbits like this one change colors when the winter comes. In the spring, this white rabbit will turn back to brown. What would a testable question to ask about the rabbit's color change from season to season?

• How does a rabbit change color?

• Do white rabbits live longer than brown rabbits?

• How many rabbits change color each year?

• How does the rabbit's color help it survive?

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The human sense organs contain receptors that relay information through sensory neurons to the appropriate places within out nervous system. The sense of taste works together with another one of our senses. We cannot taste something unless we can

• Smell it

• See it

• Hear it

• Feel it

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It is an interesting fact that honey bees will dance in order to communicate with the rest of the hive. It is thought that the dancing is a message to the hive about the location of food. How is this behavior helpful to the honey bees?

• If the whole hive knows where food is, then more can be collected.

• All the bees can eat.

• They can have fun.

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Most mammals have eyes that collect light rays and focus depending on different wavelengths and intensities of light. Eyes then convert the information about the light into electrical impulses that are sent to the brain. Most humans can see many more colors than most mammals who are mostly colorblind.

• Eyes are one of the primary sense of mammals which provides a way of perceiving the world.

• Mammal eyes have a lens which serves to focus the light.

• The majority of mammals' have eyes that can differentiate between colors

• Mammals have two eyelids, one upper and one lower eyelid

Which type of animal becomes slow and sluggish if the environment is cold?

• Warm blooded animal

• mammals

• Cold blooded animal